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SUMMER DRINKS
English Rum Shrub.
Pour three gallons of best Jamaica rum on a
quart of orange-juice, a pint of lemon-juice, and
the peels of the latter fruit cut very thin, with
six pounds of icing sugar. Cover over tightly
for one night; then boil three pints of fresh
milk, and when cold pour it into the spirit and
juice. Mix the whole well together, let it stand
for one hour, filter through a flannel bag lined
with blotting-paper into bottles, and cork
directly.
Raspberry Shrub.
Let three quarts of ripe raspberries stand in
one quart of vinegar for a day, then strain it,
adding one pound of sugar to every pint; then
boil for half an hour, skimming it clear, and
add a wineglass of brandy to each pint of shrub
when cool.
Two spoonfuls of this shrub mixed in a
tumbler of water is an excellent drink in hot
weather, or for fever patients.
Rum Shrub.
Mix in a cask one gallon of rum, one pound
of loaf sugar, and three pints of orange-juice.
Leave for six weeks, when it will be ready for
use.